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Xiongzhou Xuanfu Division.

Tong Guan summoned Cai You, Liu Yanqing, and Guo Yaoshi to a meeting to discuss the march into Yanjing.

Guo Yaoshi was the first to speak: "The situation of Yanjing is more familiar to Xiaguan, and Xiaguan will first briefly introduce the topography of Yanjing to a few adults...... Yanjing City is divided into the outer city, the inner city and the palace city, there are eight city gates in all directions, the east is Yingchun, Andong, the west is Xianxi, the Qing Jin, the south is Danfeng, Kaiyang, the north is Tongtian, Gongchen. The streets in the city are crisscrossed, and the main roads are east-west and north-south. The city is divided into twenty-six squares, each of which has a gate and a wall. ”

Tong Guan asked, "Where is Miyagi?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "In the southwest, the scale is not too large, but the palace walls are very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Liu Yanqing asked, "How high is the city wall?" ”

Pharmacist Guo replied, "Three zhang high, one zhang five wide." ”

Cai You asked, "How many people are in the city?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "There are no less than 300,000, of which the Han people are the majority, but the strongest are the Khitan and Xi people. ”

Liu Yanqing asked: "I heard that King Xi Xiao Gan is also called the king of the four armies, and he is very good at using soldiers?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "Yes, Xiao Gan is indeed very strategic, and very vicious, Empress Dowager Xiao mainly relies on him, now he leads the army to fortify on the north bank of the Lugou River, is the main opponent of our army to the north, and there is another person, named Yelu Dashi, people call him Dashi Linya, this person is also very good at fighting, he is now defending the Liangshan army in the area of Juyong Pass, and there are some people and horses in Gubeikou and Yuguan to defend the Jin army, but I don't know why, the Jin army does not mean to go south." ”

Tong Guan said: "Jin is our ally of the Great Song Dynasty, and the reason why they have not attacked Yanjing for a long time is because they have an appointment with us in advance. ”

Guo Yaoshi was shocked, "It turns out that the Great Song Dynasty has already united with the Jurchens, no wonder the Jurchens have not gone south!" ”

Tong Guan told him truthfully: "General Guo, for the recovery of Yanjing, we now have two sets of plans, one is to rely on our own strength to defeat Yanjing, which is the best." Second, if we can't take Yanjing, we will invite the Jin army to enter the customs, and the two armies will attack Yanjing from the north and south. Therefore, let's take Yanjing this time, it is ten out of ten and ten safe, and it is foolproof. ”

Liu Yanqing said: "Please ask the Jin army to enter the pass and attack Yanjing from the north and south of our army, this is the best, firstly, this can greatly reduce the casualties of our army, and secondly, to be honest, the morale in our army is not too high at present, and there is still some fear of the cavalry of the Liao army, after all, we are mainly infantry, so don't look at our large number of people, but whether it is a field battle or a siege, it is actually difficult to gain the upper hand." ”

Cai You said angrily: "What about the infantry army, Li Yan didn't defeat the cavalry of Liao, Xixia, and Mongolia with the same number of infantry troops, Liu Du was in control, and his anger could not be vented, we have hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Liao army is only tens of thousands, which is more than ten times that of them, so if we can't win, we have to be laughed off by the people of the world." ”

Out of flattery for Cai You, Guo Yaoshi followed Cai You and said: "The Liao army is actually not so powerful, they were defeated by the hands of the Jurchens first, and then at the hands of Li Yan, which is enough to show that they are not the strongest army in the world, and they have few troops, and they divide their troops to defend the country, while our Great Song Dynasty is just the opposite, with many soldiers and generals, and concentrated attacks, so as long as we work together, we are still sure of victory." ”

Tong Guan said: "General Guo is right, tomorrow the whole army will go north, meet in Xiongzhou, and then act at the opportunity." ”

The next day, Liu Yanqing led the East Route Army to march north, and Guo Yaoshi also went north with the army.

Soon, Guo Yaoshi discovered that the Song army was in disarray, the soldiers were sluggish, seriously lacked fighting spirit, and had a strange ...... Let's call it the army, from top to bottom, it seems that they are here to enjoy the mountains and rivers, not only there are hundreds of sedan chairs and thousands of carriages, but there are hundreds of women in the team!

Seeing the true face of Song Jun, Guo Yaoshi regretted his sloppiness a little, knowing that Song Jun was a group of such goods, he would rather go to Li Yan near and far.

Guo Yaoshi endured it again and again, and finally couldn't help but say to Liu Yanqing: "Marshal, if we don't take military discipline seriously, I'm afraid our team won't be able to fight." ”

Liu Yanqing smiled bitterly and said: "Those are all the sons of Yanei who came to gild, they are not here to defeat, they are just here to make merit, and let them go, they are not short of these forty or fifty thousand horses." ”

Guo Yaoshi said: "The morale and discipline of other armies are not good. ”

Liu Yanqing said: "That's why I advocate attacking Yanjing with the Jin army, we don't have the conditions to fight now." ”

Pharmacist Guo suggested: "Why not enforce military law? ”

Liu Yanqing shook his head and said, "How to enforce military law?" The so-called law does not hold the people accountable, and once a military mutiny is triggered, the consequences will be even more unimaginable, so it can only be maintained in this way. ”

Pharmacist Guo really can't figure it out, how did Liu Yanqing become the commander?

Shouldn't the first thing you do when you are a commander be a whole army, there is no army that orders a unified army, and you still have the face to say that you are the commander?

This is indeed the case, Liu Yanqing is in charge of more than 500,000 troops, if he carefully selects 100,000 of them, and then promotes the commander of the generals who dare to fight, he may go down in history.

Guo Yaoshi was even more disappointed in Song Jun, and regretted falling to Song more and more.

At the same time, the Western Route Army, under the leadership of Liu Guangshi, was also advancing towards Zhuozhou.

Liu Guangshi is now the time of the spring breeze, because he sent troops to successfully occupy Yizhou at night, and Zhao Ji personally promoted him to the position of the mighty army to undertake the propaganda.

And Feng Xuanqing (Yang Keshi's confidant general), who led the troops to Yizhou, did not get any credit.

Yang Keshi was indignant about this.

Tong Guan knew that Liu Guangshi and Yang Keshi had contradictions, so he specially emphasized in the letter he wrote to Liu Guangshi that no matter who they were, they should not harm the public privately.

Yang Keshi and Liu Guangshi each led their armies to set off, and according to Tong Guan's order, their two armies were to converge in Gushan Town, and then go north together.

However, when the two armies converged in Gushan Town, there was a fight between the soldiers because of the battle for the camp.

The soldiers blamed each other, and the situation continued to expand, and Yang Keshi and Liu Guangshi also rebuked each other, which finally caused the Western Route Army to be delayed in Gushan Town for a whole day.

Tong Guan was furious when he heard the news, and immediately sent Yu Wenxuzhong, a staff officer of the marching army, to Gushan overnight to deal with the matter.

Yuwen Xuzhong learned that the matter was caused by the conflict between the soldiers, and it was not a direct conflict between the two generals, so he tried his best to persuade peace - Yuwen Xuzhong did not dare to offend both sides, and he could not afford to offend, the only thing he could do was to mediate, that is, to persuade each other.

Later, Yuwen Xuzhong saw that Liu Guangshi and Yang Keshi were really unable to work together, and there was no hope of persuading peace, so he let Liu Guangshi and Yang Keshi be stationed in separate camps, and ordered them to march to Zhuozhou.

Soon, the Song army met in Zhuozhou.

Zhen Wuchen organized tens of thousands of military and civilian monks and Taoist priests in Zhuozhou to go out of the city to welcome them.

People beat gongs and drums, rejoicing and elated, to welcome the king of comfort.

Liu Yanqing entered the city to pacify the officials and people, inspected the treasury, and at the same time ordered Yang Keshi and Zhen Wuchen to change guards and guard Zhuozhou.

Yang Keshi only had 2,000 men and horses, which was not enough to defend Zhuozhou, so he asked Liu Yanqing for more troops.

Considering that Yang Keshi was Tong Guan's confidant and should not be offended, Liu Yanqing appointed Yang Weizhong to Yang Keshi as his deputy, and added 20,000 troops to Yang Keshi.

At this time, Liu Yanqing's soldiers and horses, including Chang Shengjun and Zhao Xu and Zhang Guanyu's township warriors, totaled no less than 500,000.

Every day from morning to night, outside the city of Zhuozhou, the sound of drums, shaking the heavens and the earth, since ancient times, the prosperity of the teacher, there is no more than this.

Zheng Jianxiong, the former army general, led his army to the south bank of the Lugou River, and several cold arrows suddenly shot from the north bank.

Zheng Chien-shiung immediately sent people back to Zhuozhou to report to Liu Yanqing, saying that the former army had engaged the enemy along the Lugou River, but he did not know the reality of the other bank, so he asked for instructions on whether to cross the river to fight?

The Lugou River was only thirty miles away from Yanjing, but Liu Yanqing did not order the Song army to cross the river, and he was worried that Xiao Gan would set up an ambush on the other side of the river.

Liu Yanqing ordered the front army to stop advancing, build fortifications along the river, and fortify on the spot.

Guo advised Liu Yanqing to lead his army to take control of Liangxiang, an important town thirty miles south of the Lugou River, which was the only place to enter and exit Yanjing from the southwest, and was also an important defensive stronghold of the Liao army.

Liu Yanqing accepted, and personally led the generals and 100,000 elite soldiers to leave Zhuozhou and go north to Liangxiang.

Liangxiang is only sixty miles away from Zhuozhou, and it is a flat river, but it is such a short distance, Liu Yanqing actually led the army to walk for two whole days - he asked to travel thirty miles a day to set up camp, bury pots to make rice, and build trenches and fortresses.

In short, Liu Yanqing's ideological principle is to work steadily and steadily.

After the army came to Liangxiang, Liu Yanqing and others found that Liangxiang had become an empty city.

Liu Yanqing was puzzled by this, and then asked Guo Yaoshi: "General Guo, what is the purpose of Xiao Gan abandoning the city?" Could it be that he is luring the enemy deeper? ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "This is not surprising, Xiao Gan's troops are insufficient, he withdrew from Liangxiang, it should be to shrink the defensive line, I guess, he may be concentrating his forces along the Lugou River, trying to use the river to block the attack...... In my opinion, our army can directly cross the river, fight a decisive battle with him, and then come to the city and take Yanjing with one blow. ”

Liu Yanqing shook his head and said: "Xiao Gan's formation near the river is obviously luring me to cross the river, trying to cross the river halfway, I can't be fooled, it's better to be steady." ”

Liu Yanqing led the generals to climb the city wall of Liangxiang.

This wall is very distinctive, it is completely piled up with earth, two zhang high and three zhang thick.

Liu Yanqing saw that there was a hill in the northeast of the city, and the flat ground rose abruptly, and there was a tall tower on the hill that was very eye-catching.

Liu Yanqing asked, "What kind of tower is that?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "That hill is called Liaoshi Gang, the tower on the hill is a hollow pagoda, can also be used as a lookout for the military situation, standing on it, you can look at Yanjing in the north, Zhuolu in the south, dozens of miles around the military situation, raise your eyes in front." ”

Liu Yanqing pointed to the pagoda and said, "It is a military location, and troops should be sent to guard it." ”

Liu Guangshi, who was standing beside him, replied: "There have been arrangements, please rest assured." ”

Liu Yanqing then led the generals to gallop to the Lugou River to inspect the military situation.

At this time, it is the setting sun, the surface of the Lugou River is brilliant with golden light, the scales are shining, and a row of weeping willows on the bank is reflected in the river like an ink painting.

Liu Yanqing pointed to the river with a horsewhip and said: "What a beautiful scenery, it is simply an excellent place for fishing." ”

Liu Guangshi said: "Yes, Lugou fishing, the scenery is infinite, but I don't know if there are fish in this river?" ”

The other generals were silent.

Guo Yaoshi thought to himself: "As the commander of the capital and the deputy commander of the capital, it is really not appropriate to talk about Lugou fishing here without planning with the generals, and besides, the war is imminent, it is really incredible that the two of them can have such leisure and elegance in their hearts." ”

Liu Yanqing asked again: "Is the river deep?" ”

Zheng Chien-shiung replied: "There are deep and shallow, the depth is not topped, and the shallow part is only up to the waist." ”

Liu Yanqing looked around at the generals very seriously, and ordered: "Now that the enemy's situation is unknown, we can't rush into battle, we must open more trenches, dig more trenches, and fortify the barracks, so as to wait for the opportunity." ”

In the evening, the two scouts ran back to report to Zheng Chien-shiung that there was a large forest on the north bank of the river, stretching for dozens of miles from east to west, and that the main force of the Liao army was hiding in the forest, waiting for him.

Zheng Chien-shiung asked, "How many soldiers and horses do they have?" ”

The scout replied, "I can't see it clearly, but there is a large horse farm to the east, which contains thousands of war horses, and according to the horses, they should not be less than five thousand." ”

Zheng Chien-shiung decided to go to Liangxiang in person and report the situation to Liu Yanqing.

So, Zheng Jianxiong took more than a dozen personal soldiers and rode towards Liangxiang.

Zheng Jianxiong was originally a literati, and then abandoned his pen to become a general from Rong, and then from the northwest to the southeast, he followed Liu Yanqing for a long time to fight in the south and the north, and his military achievements were outstanding.

When Zheng Chien-shiung walked to the vicinity of Liaoshigang in the northeast of Liangxiang, he suddenly found that there was a large group of cavalry, quietly bypassing Liaoshigang and heading straight for Liangxiang.

Zheng Jianxiong judged that this must be the Liao army that came to sneak attack.

Zheng Jianxiong guessed correctly, this was a Liao cavalry led by Xiao Gan himself, and they tried to go to the south side of Liangxiang to attack the granary of the Song army.

Zheng Jianxiong immediately decided to send a few personal soldiers to Liangxiang to report the news, and he took the rest of his personal soldiers to shoot at the Liao army.

When the Liao army was attacked, they immediately turned their horses around and rushed towards Zheng Jianxiong.

Cheng Chien-shiung hurriedly ran into the watchtower and joined the guards inside.

Seeing this, Xiao Gan changed his plan and concentrated his team to launch a fierce attack on the watchtower.

Zheng Chien-shiung and the defenders in the tower were eventually outnumbered and all martyred.

By the time Yang Keshi led the reinforcements to Liaoshigang, the Liao army had withdrawn from the battle, and the Song army had not caught up with the Liao army until the Lugou River.

Yang Keshi wanted to cross the river to pursue, but was severely reprimanded by Liu Yanqing.

Looking at the surging river, Yang Keshi was unwilling and helpless.

When the former soldiers heard that Zheng Jianxiong was martyred, they all asked for war and strongly demanded to kill the Lugou River to avenge General Zheng.

Liu Yanqing strictly ordered: "No one is allowed to cross the river without permission." ”

In fact, Liu Yanqing has feelings for Zheng Chien-shiung, and he said to the left and right: "Chien-shiung has followed me for many years, pursued Western Xia, conquered Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, and he fought as a pioneer everywhere, but I didn't expect him to die tonight." I have the best relationship with Chien-shiung, and I am more heartbroken than anyone else for his heroic martyrdom. However, the more this time, the more we have to be calm. Be sensible and don't be impulsive. All armies must strictly defend their positions, especially strengthen river defenses, and always be vigilant against another sneak attack by the Liao army. ”

Liu Yanqing's idea is that as long as our army maintains a high-pressure situation on the bank of the Lugou River, the Liao army will not last long, and it will collapse without a fight.

For several days, the two armies faced each other across the river, facing each other, and neither dared to advance, and neither was willing to retreat.

Xiao Gan attacked Liaoshigang at night, and also lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and did not make much profit.

For the first time, Xiao Gan felt that the combat effectiveness of the Song army was not so bad.

Therefore, Xiao Gan was also hesitating, he had been planning a sneak attack on the Song army's grain village, hoping to force the Song army to retreat, but seeing the situation of the Song army in front of him, he didn't dare to act rashly.

Tong Guan was also very sad to learn that Zheng Jianxiong was martyred in Liangxiang.

At the same time, Tong Guan was very dissatisfied with Liu Yanqing's confrontation with the Liao army on the south bank of the Lugou River for many days and did not take the initiative to cross the river.

Therefore, Tong Guan sent someone to Liu Yanqing to issue a letter to march into the army: "What is the reason why the army does not advance for several days after arriving in Liangxiang? Is there a way to find a way to win? Our army is dozens of times more than the enemy, and the balance of forces is very advantageous, I hope that the army can advance bravely and reach Yanjing City......"

Liu Yanqing received the letter and immediately convened a meeting of the generals in Liangxiang to discuss.

Guo Yaoshi said: "At present, Xiao Gan will put the main force on the north bank of the river to block us, and the city of Yanjing will inevitably be empty, and we can take this opportunity to enter the void." I suggested that a light cavalry be sent to quietly go east, cross the river from Gu'an to Anci, and then go straight to Yanjing. The Han people in Yanjing City, if they learn that the king is coming, they will be the internal response, so Yanjing can be obtained. ”

Liu Yanqing asked: "Are you familiar with this route?" ”

Pharmacist Guo said: "It's like walking in your own yard." ”

Liu Yanqing hesitated a little: "In the area of Gu'an and Anci, can Xiao Gan not be defended?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "Eighty miles from Zhuozhou east to Gu'an, and from Gu'an to the northeast more than one hundred and thirty miles, before you can reach Anci, Xiao Gan's troops are limited, and his defense line cannot be so long." ”

Liu Yanqing asked the generals again, and all the generals thought that this was a surprising and winning plan.

So, Liu Yanqing approved this plan to attack Yanjing.

Guo Yaoshi asked Liu Yanqing to let Liu Guangshi lead the army to Yanjing to meet him when the time came.

Guo Yaoshi looked at the more than 500,000 Song troops, and finally found that in addition to the few western armies that were excluded by Liu Yanqing on the edge, Liu Guangshi's troops also had some combat strength, so he wanted Liu Guangshi to respond.

Liu Yanqing agreed.

Guo Yaoshi led 1,000 Changsheng troops as the vanguard, and Zhao Heshou, Gao Shixuan, Yang Keshi, and Yang Kebi 4 generals commanded a total of 5,000 troops as the main force.

On the night of October 23, the fourth year of Xuanhe, 6,000 men and horses quietly set out - these 6,000 men and horses were all light cavalry, they tied their horses and ranks, wrapped their banners in armor, and galloped east from Liangxiang......

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